Big Picture
Writing
The Other 4
Potpourri
Words
100

Three Pairs

How many language arts are commonly taught?


100

Ideas and Word Choice are two.

What are the 6 Traits?

100

Its "pair" is Listening.

What is Speaking?

100

Three reasons why reading aloud at any grade is critical.

What are....?

100

their, there, and they're are examples

What are homophones?

200
Created in 2010, they are a driving force in education today.

What are the Common Core State Standards?

200

The 5 stages of the writing process

What are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing?

200
Of the "Big 6," the 2 newer arrivals.

What are Visually Representing and Viewing?

200

A book is read aloud, then referred to frequently as a model for a type of writing.

What is a mentor text?

200

Free Space!

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300

One is Literature Focus Unit, but the others.

What are Literature Circles, Thematic Units, and Reading and Writing Workshop?


300

Argument, Information, Narrative

What are the three main types of writing emphasized in the CCSS?

300

Three ways rhymes, chants, and songs can be educational.

What are.....?

300

Consider the Audience, Detect Bias, Integrate Multimedia, Monitor, Organize and Observe?

What are some Language Arts Strategies?

300

After removing the prefix and/or suffix, the part that remains.

What is a baseword?

400

Less narrative, much greater expository and persuasive.

What is a very big switch in the CCSS from past sets of standards?

400

Free Space!

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400
The two types of listening used when students "listen for pleasure or enjoyment" and "students listen to evaluate messages."

What are aesthetic and critical listening?

400

The 4 Language Systems

What are phonological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic?

400

Three good strategies for developing vocabulary

What are....?

500

Reading and writing are to be taught in science, social studies, and throughout the curriculum.

What is Disciplinary Literacy?

500

Cause and effect, compare and contrast, main idea and details are some.

What are story structures?

500

Charts, graphs, photos with captions, and maps are examples.

What are text features?

500

Any 7 genres of children's literature.

What are mystery, realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, historical fiction, folktales, tall tales, biographies, plays...?

500

Any 5 narrative devices.

What are similies, metaphors, hyperbole, imagry, symbolism, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration...?